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Author: David Smillie ,
Johan M. van der Dennen ,
Daniel R. Wilson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.652kg
ISBN: 9780275964368
ISBN 10: 0275964361
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 30 December 1999
Recommended Age: From 7 to 17 years
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
?This book reviews the impact of sociobiology and Darwinism on a broad range of scientific endeavours....The most unique aspect of this book is the range of subjects to which the authors apply sociobiology theory, ranging from anthropology, political science, and economics to literary theory.?-Transcultural Psychiatry
?This book reviews the impact of sociobiology and Darwinism on a broad range of scientific endeavours....The most unique aspect of this book is the range of subjects to which the authors apply sociobiology theory, ranging from anthropology, political science, and economics to literary theory.?-Transcultural Psychiatry This book reviews the impact of sociobiology and Darwinism on a broad range of scientific endeavours....The most unique aspect of this book is the range of subjects to which the authors apply sociobiology theory, ranging from anthropology, political science, and economics to literary theory. -Transcultural Psychiatry
Author Information
JOHAN M. G. van der DENNEN, born in Eindhoven (the Netherlands) in 1944, studied behavioral sciences at the University of Groningen, and is at present a researcher at the Section Political Science of the Department of Legal Theory, formerly the Polemological (Peace Institute), University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He has published extensively on all aspects of human and animal aggression, sexual violence, neuro- and psychopathology of human violence, political violence, theories of war causation, macroquantitative research on contemporary wars, ethnocentrism, and the politics of peace and war in preindustrial societies. In 1995 he published his dissertation, The Origin of War: The Evolution of a Male-Coalitional Reproductive Strategy, an evolutionary analysis of the origin of intergroup violence in humans and animals. He is Secretary of the European Sociobiological Society (ESS). DAVID SMILLIE was trained as a developmental psychologist and taught at New College, University of South Florida for 25 years./e Since retiring, he has been working as a Visiting Professor in Zoology at Duke University. His articles and book chapters have appeared widely in scholarly publications. DANIEL R. WILSON is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati and Medical Director for Public Psychiatry. He has published widely in both general and evolutionary psychiatry.
